What happens when we discover that a severely mentally handicapped girl, resident under our care, is heavily pregnant? What options are open to us in her management? What are the legal and ethical issues involved? How do we ensure that she receives the best possible care and protection and will the involvement of the police actually make the situation worse? Few of us have had the experience of...

J. B. Lippincott Co. London: Pitman Medical Publishing (Jo. Pp. 203. 32s. The number of useful texts on mental deficiency is small, especially those by psychologists, so that a new volume written by the chief clinical psychologist of the Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals, New York, is opened with interest. The author, Harold Michal-Smith, draws a clear picture of the inadequacy of the social se...

When a mother learns her baby is mentally handicapped the news comes as a knock-out blow. She, and her family, need time to digest the shock; they also need sympathy and practical help which is not as readily available as it should be.

In the United States, "Amazingly little nationwide data [are] available from which [ mental retardation] program trends can be extrapolated and implications drawn.. .decisions on the allocation of public resources are made by national and state policy-makers based on little more than the most rudimentary assumptions about what is actually happening in the field" (The President's Committee on Me...

the mentally handicapped child is to be retained in the community, it is essential matt ls family doctor should be aware of his problems which are by no means solely a ^oca' authority services", writes Dr. Brian H. Kirman in the April issue of ractitioner" devoted to "the handicapped child".

Three million persons under age 65 are entitled to Medicare because of disability. This study examines their Medicare use and mortality. Disabled enrollees had higher health care use and mortality than comparison groups of Medicare's aged enrollees or of the general population under age 65. One type of disabled enrollee, adults disabled as children (over one-half of whom are mentally retarded) ...

Physically disabled and mentally challenged people are an important part of our society that has not yet received the same opportunities as others in their inclusion in the Information Society. Therefore, it is necessary to develop easily accessible systems for computers to achieve their inclusion within the new technologies. This paper presents a project whose objective is to draw disabled peo...